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Mk 1:3a ... "A-voice crying-out in the wilderness, ..."

Verse 3 has 3 phrases containing 14 words. The 1st phrase has these 5 narrator words, ... Fōnē boōntos en tē erēmō ("A voice crying out in the wilderness, ...").

Diagram 1: The 5 narrator words are top down. The diagram shows shows the 5 words come from an unknown source to fill a square with an area 1/4th the size of the graph. The sign of a wilderness is a rectangle equal to 1/4 the area of the graph. The source of the voice might be an angel, a prophet, or God himself.

Diagram 2: Verse 3 is a paraphrase that comes from Isaiah 40:3. The second diagram shows the "voice" encloses four lines of Isaiah 40:3. The source text of this phrase comes from the first line of Isaiah 40:3. The geometry shows that the square enclosing the voice and the Old Testament words is also inside "a wilderness."

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